#cdc says

[callese]

#fucking hell #mississippi river #mississippi #cdc says #cdc

[iliveinprocrasti-nationn]

i can never understand all the people going “covid’s just a cold” “it’s just like the flu”. it’s not influenza or a rhinovirus. covid sars-cov-2: severe accute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. scientifically, it can never be a cold or flu, and it will cause severe accute respiratory syndrome. that’s not posturing or dramatics, it’s science

#also looking at long term symptoms of sars1. i think in 5-10 years we’re going to start seeing a barrage of horrible long term symptoms and #find out a lot of people never fully recovered #that’s what gets me is like. when i talk about covid my backing is from scientific journals and studies and then my own personal experience #watching someone die of covid. meanwhile people are like ‘well i read in an article’ or ‘well the cdc says’. also y’all the cdc is not forth #coming about covid info. they definitely don’t publicise things. but they still have information on their website that’s concerning that i #think if they publicised would make a lot more people concerned about the pandemic again #for example. Covid causes sepsis. this is something you can find on pub med and on the cdc website #if you’re curious: https://www.cdc.gov/sepsis/what-is-sepsis.html #it’s under ‘what causes sepsis’ #also once again. all the studies about long term symptoms coming out and the damage covid does to the body are horrifying #coronavirus #imagine if people said ‘yeah I just tested positive for severe accute respiratory syndrome’

[ordinarytalk]

My supervisor: I almost didn't come today. I've been having a really hard time breathing since last night. :/ Me: Did you take a covid test? My supervisor: Nah, I don't have any tests.

Other supervisor: I've got one in my car.

My supervisor: No thanks. Besides, everybody in the meeting was coughing, they probably all have it. It doesn't matter.

#Hell! Hell! Hell! #I WORK FOR THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT #I am the only one wearing a mask #covid #personal stuff #honestly still incredibly uncomfortable with the CDC saying I'm good to return to work after five days! Still coughing and short of breath!

[yourdyingwish]

BTW anyone going to mychem shows or just doing stuff in the future, the new covid booster is available now and I highly suggest getting it. it helps protect against new variants! i feel lucky that we managed to get ours before riotfest

#this isn't to say anyone who did get Riot Rona is like Bad or something i just think this booster has been #highly under promoted by the CDC

[radetzkymarch]

Celebrating the Cessation of Covid Hostilities by dropping an Emergen-C into my wine

#still testing postive but I can breathe again and the CDC says I gotta be at work #insert skull emoji here

[pc-98s]

i had to go to the credit union and they were acting all suspicious of me in there, asking me to take my mask off and going "what, do you have a cold or something" i'm getting over covid. did you forget about that. the whole covid thing. come on

#the current CDC recommendation is to wear a mask five days after you get over covid!! #i'm just doing what the CDC says. dont get all suspicious of me for wearing a mask

[potofsoup]

@alexandra-again sorry I tried to respond in the replies but my reply got long, so here it is in full:

Will it take 50 years? Yes and no.

As Steve said in the comic, there will be a lot of downstream effects that will happen much sooner, in, say, 5-10 years.  For example, if you are moving your local city government and school board to the left, they are the ones who are deciding on housing, education, police departments, public transportation, and the minimum wage.  If you are moving your state government to the left, they are the ones who decide on abortion, voting access, prison reform, etc.  All of those things *aren’t* explicitly restoring Roe v Wade, but they will make life better in infinite small ways.

What that will also do, is make it easier to do national-level things.  Greater voting access will make it easier to vote in elections for Congress and the Presidency.  Greater quality of life makes it easier for people to find the time and energy to vote and to participate in community.  One of the problems right now is that the Senate is voted by state (I put this awkwardly in the comic, leading to some confusion -- the state legislature doesn’t vote for US senators, but the people of each state does).  If you are liberal-leaning but living in a state that is toxic to you, you have a very big impetus to leave the state, which then leaves increasingly conservative states that continues to have two senators in the Senate. If, on the other hand, local and state level activism leads the downstream effects to make life in that state would be less toxic, then more people would be okay with staying and pushing the agenda even further left.

Also, this sort of state level activism will put progressive people in positions of power when national level things come into play.  When the 19th Amendment passed through the Congress, it needed to be ratified by 36 states, and the suffagettes were able to get 35 states to ratify it within half a year, even given the usual pace of legislative crawl.  How?  It’s because they were already active and ready on the state level in most of the Western states.  A lot of the states already had universal, or at least presidential suffrage.  Or, if you look at now, a lot of states are poised to ban abortion because the Republicans have spent decades locking up states legislature and gerrymandering the districts.

And that brings me back to the original question -- would it take 50 years to restore Roe?  Well, firstly, I’d like to challenge the question itself.  Is it that we want to restore Roe, which was a decision made by 7 justices in 1973, or is it that we want to create a more democratic society where the right to bodily autonomy is seen as a basic human right in all the states?  Personally, I think it’d be better to actually have something that enshrines reproductive rights (and so many other rights) in law, or, even better, in the Constitution, than relying on who happens to be in the Supreme Court at the moment.  

Supreme Court decisions can expand rights quickly, but it can also take those rights away equally quickly.  The pre-Roe abortion landscape is pretty complicated, but extrapolating from this CDC report from 1972, there were only 13 states that had relatively unrestricted abortion.  (18 if you’re counting in a different way, but a number of states were legal-in-name-only).  This is compared to 28 states that had at least presidential suffrage for women in 1919, and the 36 states that had legalized gay marriage by 2015.  13!  The Roe decision was a shortcut -- just because abortion was legalized didn’t mean that people’s minds were instantly changed.

And yeah, the long way around *will* probably take 50 years.  But (a) when we get there, we’ll have *actually* gotten there -- a constitutional amendment, or a bill that’s passed by a healthy majority in Congress, or >30 states that actually have abortion protections, and (b) we’ll have reaped SO MANY windfalls along the way, in terms of local and state level change.

This stuff takes time, but it is WORTH IT.

#aiyah another longpost #fun fact: did you know that the Roe of Roe v Wade wasn't actually able to get an abortion? #joys of being a test case I suppose -- Supreme Court deliberative process takes longer than a pregnancy #the cdc file is really interesting #though you'll need to hop down to pg 32 and 33 for the charts #you know what i'd like? #a national strategy #someone to say 'hey if you live in x state this is what you should do' #surely the internet can make coordination better

[quixoticanarchy]

I’d like to clarify one thing about CDC’s updated covid guidelines (as of mid-August 2022): yeah imo they’re absurd and dangerous, but I’ve seen a particular misunderstanding float around that could make things worse. 

Quarantine and isolation are not the same thing. This point has been thoroughly confused by a lot of bad media coverage and messaging, but quarantine is for after you’ve been exposed; isolation is for after you test positive. CDC now says you no longer have to quarantine if you’ve been exposed, regardless of your vaccination status. To be perfectly clear I still think this is stupid, and they should recommend quarantining for at least 5 days after an exposure, if you’re able to do so. But the point I see people confused over is this: “CDC says you don’t have to quarantine if you have covid!” Technically, that’s true... but it’s because quarantine is about exposure, not having covid. CDC does still recommend that you isolate for 5 days after you test positive. (Again, I also think this is bad advice, and you should isolate for 10 days or at least until you test negative.) 

But a big reason I flag this is, for instance, if your boss says you can come to work with covid “because the CDC says so—” No. they do not. CDC still says that you should isolate if you have covid. Don’t let people use this confusion over quarantine/isolation to push for even more unsafe conditions, and don’t take it as carte blanche to be careless while you yourself are sick. 

Caveat: I wouldn’t be shocked, unfortunately, if CDC loosens their guidance even further in the future, and believe me I am well aware that people have been flouting the quarantine and isolation guidelines all along. But the point is, you should know the difference before it’s used against you, and so you can try to keep yourself safe[r]. 

#covidposting at work once again folks. sorry #I’ve just seen this misconception too often & i could see this being misused (whether intentionally or not) to put ppl even more at risk #‘cdc says you don’t have to quarantine if you have covid’ is missing the point bc they have never said that #you don’t quarantine if you have covid; you isolate. quarantine is about exposure #i'm very unhappy about cdc’s guidance don’t get me wrong!! but pls hate cdc accurately at least #(like they would’ve known the guidance would be misinterpreted like this. they did enable that) #coronavirus #public health #covid 19 #skravler #and yeah obv if your job wants to exploit you they will regardless but technically cdc's guidelines are not on their side

[tiktaalic]

I know my limits. Which means I know in my life. I can either fix one specific doctor’s office. (Small scale direct impacts to patient lives) Or I can fix the entire FDA (large scale background noise impacts)

#I could literally fix the fda. is the thing #cdc is sexier pays more but you would just be cog the entire time I think. #fda less sexy pays less but my gut says easier to ladder climb. for whatever reason #etxt

[horce-divorce]

I managed to not get sick (not even a cold) for the last 3 years even though I LIVED in a house with 2 people who got covid, and everyone else I know has been sick multiple times. I'm really, really careful.

We've been staying here for less than 6 months and I've gotten sick twice. I haven't stopped being careful. But my friend's dad? He is THE most disgusting man I've EVER met. Hands down. I don't say that lightly, he is atrocious. He constantly has pneumonia and doesn't wear a mask because "it's not covid." He sounds like gollum. He can't stand up without passing out. He is constantly saying he's FINE and NOT SICK.

He has an open wound on his foot that he doesn't take care of and he bleeds all over the floor/rugs in common areas and then LEAVES IT THERE. He bled all over a roll of TP the other day and then just... left it like that for everyone to use! No big deal!! His wife scrubbed the bathroom floor the other day on her hands and knees to get his bloodstains off of it, and the NEXT DAY he bled all over it again.

He popped his dentures out of his mouth, with food on them, and LEFT THEM ON THE KITCHEN COUNTER. WITH FOOD ON THEM. FOR HOURS. The past 2 days, he's had a steak that is TWO YEARS out of date "thawing" on the counter for 10+ hours each day (it was not frozen!!!!!!). He always does this. He will leave leftover food out on the counter at room temperature ALL DAY before he eats it. And then he'll leave his leftovers on the counter knowing they have mice. (Four of the five of us have been trying desperately to get rid of the mice for months. Guess who's not helping!)

He also doesn't wash his hands. I don't mean "I've caught him doing that." I mean, he'll like, stick his whole hand in lasagna sauce and then open every door in the kitchen with that hand and just leave sticky handprints on everything like a toddler. This happens DAILY. There are FOUR other people who clean up after this man. You can clean everything in the kitchen spotless and go back in there tomorrow at 9am and he'll have fucked it up already. He dumps his old coffee cup into the sink OVER TOP OF THE CLEAN DISHES IN THE RACK. He does that OFTEN! Not just once! Like, regularly!!!

Like yes he's letting us stay here for free. The toll it takes is psychological. Truly I don't even think he notices that other people inhabit Earth with him, let alone his own house. He could not be bothered to care about anyone else if you paid him. We've told him repeatedly that we're staying here because we're disabled and thus homeless, and that we are immunocompromised, and he keeps going "oh, yeah!" And then insisting he doesn't have to change anything because it's "not covid." Like, buddy, I don't care if its covid, RSV, pneumonia, swine flu, or some yet undescribed mutation of a virus that melted out of the ice caps and flew up your nose. I DONT WANT IT!!!!!!!

Anyway I have really good reason to believe that it's either the conditions in the house and/or Pat's fault that Bel and I both keep getting sick, because we both had this shit on lock for YEARS before we came here. We cannot fucking wait to get back to the woods in no small part due to the personal space it will afford us from people

#me #prsnl #none of this is to say im not grateful!!!!! #we owe a lot to this family rn!!!! #but it would be cool if people didnt like. idk. feel entitled to make us sick all the fucking time. #it would be cool if yall continued to care once the government said you could stop. #its just extra rich to me when its someone LIKE PAT who we KNOW doesnt care what the gov says #you dont fucking trust the government 99% of the time. but the cdc said covid? don't worry about it! :) #and you went: gee okay! thanks! #good job everyone #also i think d8 could be a factor #that shit is unregulated and we got a... weird bad cart last time

[caseyscraftycorner]

in an infuriating update, after having no symptoms at all yesterday, today i am exclusively experiencing the symptom of "very slightly too warm but not quite a fever".

#like #to be clear #my temp has not hit 100 #the earliest reading i did was a 99.9 #and since then it's been shifting between 99.4 and 99.8 #the cdc says a fever is 100.4 #but there's also research suggesting that the fever temp should be lower than that #but also no literature agrees on where it should be instead of 100.4 #so #this is infuriating #and also to be clear a second time #'too warm' is my only symptom #no malaise. no cough. no sore throat. my joints don't even hurt and that happens like every time i get sick #it's been a frustrating week for my body #also i feel too warm. usually when i have A Fever i feel cold #but i'm just. overheating. constantly. #ughhhh #my current guess is that this is the known influenza phenomenon #where one gets extremely mildly sick for a short period of time #it's really hard to study because most people with this don't report illness #they often don't even realize they are sick #before covid i don't know if i would have realized i was sick #hell i think even in a covid context i only noticed because i was hyperaware for symptoms after the concert #anyways #very annoyed

[opqrstuv04]

Suitemate tested positive for Covid the day before I went to get my new shot orz guess I’m going tonight!!!!!!!

#it’s gonna b a pain getting my roommate to mask too #I love her and she’s not anti mask or anything she just doesn’t really like it n therefore if the CDC says she doesn’t have to. She won’t : #💌

[reasoningdaily]

The US infant mortality rate rose last year. The CDC says it’s the largest increase in two decades

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. infant mortality rate rose 3% last year — the largest increase in two decades, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

White and Native American infants, infant boys and babies born at 37 weeks or earlier had significant death rate increases. The CDC’s report, published Wednesday, also noted larger increases for two of the leading causes of infant deaths — maternal complications and bacterial meningitis.

“It’s definitely concerning, given that it’s going in the opposite direction from what it has been,” said Marie Thoma, a University of Maryland researcher who studies maternal and infant mortality.

Dr. Eric Eichenwald, a Philadelphia-based neonatologist, called the new data “disturbing,” but said experts at this point can only speculate as to why a statistic that generally has been falling for decades rose sharply in 2022.

RSV and flu infections rebounded last fall after two years of pandemic precautions, filling pediatric emergency rooms across the country. “That could potentially account for some of it,” said Eichenwald, who chairs an American Academy of Pediatrics committee that writes guidelines for medical care of newborns.

Infant mortality is the measure of how many babies die before they reach their first birthday. Because the number of babies born in the U.S. varies from year to year, researchers instead calculate rates to better compare infant mortality over time. The U.S. infant mortality rate has been worse than other high-income countries, which experts have attributed to poverty, inadequate prenatal care and other possibilities. But even so, the U.S. rate generally gradually improved because of medical advances and public health efforts.

The national rate rose to 5.6 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in 2022, up from from 5.44 per 1,000 the year before, the new report said.

The increase may seem small, but it’s the first statistically significant jump in the rate since the increase between 2001 and 2002, said Danielle Ely, the CDC report’s lead author. She also said researchers could not establish whether the 2022 rise was a one-year statistical blip — or the beginning of a more lasting trend.

Overall in the U.S., the death rate fell 5% in 2022 — a general decrease that’s been attributed to the waning impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially on people 65 and older. U.S. maternal deaths also fell last year.

More than 30 states saw at least slight rises in infant mortality rates in 2022, but four states had statistically significant increases — Georgia, Iowa, Missouri and Texas.

In numbers, U.S. infant deaths surpassed 20,500 in 2022 — 610 more than the year before nationwide. But Georgia had 116 more infant deaths than the year before, and Texas had 251 more.

“It would appear that some of the states could be having a larger impact on the (national) rate,” Ely said, adding that smaller increases elsewhere also have an effect — and that it’s hard to parse out exactly what places, policies or other factors are behind the national statistic.

#The US infant mortality rate rose last year. The CDC says it’s the largest increase in two decades #infant mortality #pregnancy in america #mothers #birthing #Womens Health

[mildmayfoxe]

sealed my bedroom door extremely haphazardly but to the best of my current ability with several different foam weather stripping tapes & a draft snake & a towel & armed with my new bigger air purifier that is way overpowered for my room that will change out the air in here approx every six minutes i am about to sleep without a mask on for the first time since JANUARY SECOND

#i know i sound crazy but the only one who can protect me is me & they both just do whatever #so this current spike has been stressing me the fuck out. but now maybe i can sleep normal at least #it’s pretty breezy in here with this thing running full power LMAO but i like white noise #ive also been torn about all the various wastewater charts bc the one on the cdc website for mass is REAL bad #the one on biobot for my county also real bad #BUT the mass water resource authority page shows numbers significantly down in my area (fed also by biobot) #and the mass dot gov site also says it’s not too bad around here rn #so i don’t know what to believe. if mwra is right then i don’t need to be as careful anymore & can stop masking in my HOUSE #but since everything else is so different i don’t know if it’s correct #i dunno. anyway #chatpost

[hylianengineer]

Medical professionals can be very, very stupid. I'm sure there are smart ones out there somewhere but I swear every time I need advice I get the most deeply stupid one imaginable.

I know you aren't doing your job correctly because I googled this question before I asked it to you and you ignored 9/10 things the CDC and Mayo Clinic both said you were supposed to ask me about. You did not even let me finish my question.

How are you going to know if there's something you need to be concerned about if you won't even let me tell you the thing I'm concerned about?

#hylian rambles #thanks for being a dismissive asshole i guess? #you are an embarassment to your profession #medical tw #this post brought to you by my local urgent care and a very dismissive nurse #im probably fine. the idiot on the phone says its fine. the cdc says see a healthcare provider but that isn't happening. i tried. #cdc have you considered there is a severe shortage of COMPETENT healthcare providers

[sleepdeprivedsimp234]

Loui is forced to go to ~therapy~. It doesn’t go too well…. Sorta-

CDC: Alright Louisiana, t-today will be your first d-day of therapy and my first day as y-your therapist :D *thinks that this is gonna be somewhat normal*

Loui: Um… bye b*tch- *tries to escape but fails miserably cuz Gov/DC just snatched him up in his arms and tossed him into his seat*

Gov/DC, not in the mood for this bs: Don’t try that sh*t. You need therapy, you’re getting therapy.

Loui: Mai sha- I told you I’m fine!

Gov/DC: I know and that is the biggest piece of bs I’ve ever heard. Would you like me to name the things that are possibly if not are actually wrong with you?

Loui: *I’ve never heard silence quite this loud*

Gov/DC: Exactly.

CDC: Well that happened… Anyway, I’ll start out with simple question s-since it’s o-our first day. What would you say your m-mood is on a daily basis? And I don’t m-mean the mood or emotions that you may or may not put up to hide w-whatever you feel inside. I would l-like you to be honest with me, you can take as long as you need.

Loui: *death glare*

CDC: U-uhh…. *looks to Gov for help*

Gov: *sigh* Listen Lou… can you pls be a bit more cooperative right now?

Loui: Fine…

Gov: Thank you. Carry on. *leaves*

CDC: Alright. Do you have an answer to my question?

Loui: *under his breath* Just hit me with a car already…

CDC: What w-was that?

Loui: I said just hit me with a car already.

CDC: W-why…. Anyways, have you had anything bad or emotionally damaging happen to you recently and if so how recently?

Loui: I mean… my ex bf just cheated on me a couple days ago with some basic blonde b*stard of a man after he somehow got me to start dating him again after 3 years of verbal-sometimes-physical abuse and non-consensual touching and sh*t….

CDC: *in shock* Oh bud… That’s terrible… I’m so sorry…

Loui: It’s fine, it’s not that big a deal, other people have it worse.

CDC: What’re y-you talking about?! Ofc it’s a big deal!! What he did is not ok! And j-just because other people may h-have it worse doesn’t m-make your problems any less valid. How many times has this happened to you?

Loui: At least 4.

CDC: Jesus Christ….

Loui: Honestly maybe if I fell in love with ~ANXIETY~, it will ALSO leave me :D

CDC: I can’t handle this sh*t right now….

Loui: Just remember, if you can’t handle me at my worst…, I handle me at my worst EVERYDAY! WHICH MAKES ME STRONGER THAN YOU-

CDC: I can’t do this t-today….

Loui: Oh my gosh a spider!! *pulls out gun that Texas gave him (big mistake btw-)*

CDC: WAIT LOU-! It is a living thing! Treat it the way you want to be treated!

Loui: *points gun at spider* Killed without hesitation!-

CDC: LOUI- *tackles the poor thing and manhandles him to the ground so he can take the gun*

=======================================================================

CDC: *walks out with Louisiana behind him*

Gov: So…. How’d it go…?

CDC: *sigh* Long story short…, this kid’s g-going to need more professional h-help-

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#welcome to the statehouse #welcome to the table #wttt louisiana #wttt gov #wttt cdc #therapy is for losers haha- #says me while knowing that I need it